Community suitability of San Jose, Costa Rica
Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 69
73
best land · p90
28%
good land
—
one block
How each domain holds up
Legal & sovereignty 64
Governance, safety & tenure 70
Society, freedom & health 94
Land & water 42
Climate, growing & hazards 87
Autonomy & access 85
Where it pushes back
Water availability & qualityLegal entity & land frameworkGrowing conditions
Within San Jose — 20 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Leon Cortes
strongest Autonomy & access (95) ·
weakest Land & water (56)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 75
Aserri
strongest Society, freedom & health (94) ·
weakest Land & water (55)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 72
Vasquez De Coronado
strongest Society, freedom & health (94) ·
weakest Land & water (43)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 72
Acosta
strongest Society, freedom & health (94) ·
weakest Land & water (45)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 70
Moravia
strongest Society, freedom & health (94) ·
weakest Land & water (45)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 70
Perez Zeledon
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 67
Tarrazu
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 67
Turrubares
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 67
Mora
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 66
Puriscal
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 66
Dota
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 64
Desamparados
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 63
Alajuelita
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 61
Goicoechea
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 61
Santa Ana
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 58
Escazu
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 56
Montes De Oca
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 46
Curridabat
pushes back: Accessibility
Currently not suitable 34
Tibas
pushes back: Accessibility
Currently not suitable 33
excluded excl
Reading the land, criterion by criterion
Each signal names the open dataset behind it and how measured it is.
Legal entity & land frameworkcountry B OECD FDI RRI + manual
Seed & agricultural autonomycountry C UPOV membership proxy
Governance & corruptioncountry A World Bank WGI + Transparency CPI
Land tenure securitycountry A IPRI (de jure) + Prindex (de facto)
Business & economic viabilitycountry A World Bank B-READY, Heritage, Fraser
Cost of living, labour & landcountry A World Bank PPP, ILOSTAT
Personal freedomcountry A Cato/Fraser Human Freedom Index
Healthcare qualitycountry B WHO GHO
Disease / vector burden A Malaria Atlas + dengue Index P
Soil quality A SoilGrids (ISRIC)
Water availability & quality A WRI Aqueduct + AQUASTAT
Terrain & buildability A SRTM / NASADEM
Land cover & degradation A ESA WorldCover + Global Forest Watch
Biodiversity & alignment B Biodiversity Intactness Index
Climate & natural hazards A ThinkHazard + NASA FIRMS + USGS
Growing conditions A CHELSA / FAO GAEZ
Food & forage diversity B FAO GAEZ crop suitability + GLW
Coastal risk B Climate Central CoastalDEM
Energy potential A Global Solar Atlas + Global Wind Atlas
Natural building materials B SoilGrids clay + forest + geology
Environmental quality A SEDAC PM2.5 + VIIRS night-lights
Connectivity A Ookla + ITU (+ Starlink)
Accessibility A Malaria Atlas friction surface
Remoteness / surroundings A GPWv4 population density
Contamination legacy C Maus mining polygons + WRI power plants
Phase-1 desk screening
These are desk numbers from open data. Soil tests, water rights and the welcome of actual neighbours all wait for a visit — we'd rather say so than pretend.
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